IUVENES When Heroes Will Rise CD (2002)

Before Iuvenes refined their sound, When Heroes Will Rise captured them in 2002 with something rawer and more urgent, the kind of record that makes you realise how much of Eastern Europe's black metal legacy got quietly buried while everyone was paying attention to Norway.

This is Polish Viking and dark ambient black metal done with genuine conviction, sitting comfortably alongside Graveland's pagan epics and the frost-bitten atmospherics of Hellveto and Norden. The digipak format makes it a proper artefact for anyone who collects this stuff seriously, not a compromise. If the Bathory Nordland records or Two Runes are already in your shelf, this fills a gap you didn't know you had.

2002 full-length album on CD, digipak edition. Polish dark ambient/Viking/black metal.

Fans of: Graveland, Bathory, Nachfalke, Two Runes, Norden, Hellveto